cigarette holder
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈsɪɡəˌrɛt ˈhoʊldər/
:
boquilla para cigarrillos
- Imagine Jimmy Carter with FDR's cigarette holder.
- an ivory cigarette holder
- a long cigarette holder
- a black cigarette holder
I mean, what if she had George Washington's hair, Abe Lincoln's beard, FD Rs glasses and cigarette holder, and William Howard Taft's morbid obesity?
- I mean, what if she had George Washington's hair, Abe Lincoln's beard, FD Rs glasses and cigarette holder, and William Howard Taft's morbid obesity?
Examples
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My Tallulah client, with her movie-star cigarette holder and her pitchers of martinis and her drawling, leathery voice.
Fiction book (1998) -
And for some unaccountable reason... ...an amber cigarette holder for him.
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"Sketch in a cigarette holder," he said.
Fiction book (1995) -
One used an ivory cigarette holder.
Fiction book (1997) -
Very much at ease, with pince-nez and cigarette holder, in a red silk dressing gown.
Fiction book (1995) -
William sits there, as only David Felton stays behind, brandishing his cigarette holder.
Fiction book (2000) -
What if we encounter difficulties and have to send out a call for assistance?" Hui idly held up his cigarette holder and studied it.
Fiction book (1998) -
Sarah's sketch of the woman in the hat, with a cigarette holder, was a good-natured caricature of Jackie Maye herself.
Fiction book (1995) -
The father stops and gapes, the cigarette holder out of his mouth, to see a dazed nurse shuffle out of the birth room and disappear down the hallway.
Fiction book (1992) -
She elegantly raised her cigarette holder as she laughed at the party.
Synonyms
73
1.4
A thing that holds or supports other objects, like a pen stand
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a device into which a cigarette is inserted' is directly derivable from the constituents 'cigarette' (a small tobacco cylinder) and 'holder' (a device for holding items). This noun–noun compound follows regular English composition patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Cigarette holder comes from a simple object: a thin tube that holds a cigarette so it stays away from the smoker's face, fingers and clothes. Because people often used these tubes as a fashionable extra, the name today means 'a thin tube used to hold a cigarette while smoking'.